Peter Navarro, former director of the U.S. Office of Trade and Trade, on July 17, 2024, at the Feather Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on the third day of the Republican National Convention (RNC), manufacturing Karma, he gestured during his speech.
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President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Peter Navarro will serve as “senior adviser for trade and manufacturing” during the next White House term.
Trump wrote in two statements that Navarro, 75, would be responsible for helping “successfully advance and communicate Trump’s manufacturing, tariff and trade agenda.” truth society post Revealing picks.
Navarro previously served as Trump’s top trade aide during his first term.
The choice came less than five months after Navarro was released from prison.
He is serving about four months in prison at a federal facility in Miami for defying a congressional subpoena issued by a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. He was convicted on two counts contempt of parliament.
Hours after his release on July 17, Navarro spoke at the Republican National Convention.
Trump said in Wednesday’s post that Navarro “was treated horribly by the deep state, or whatever you want to call it.”
Trump also praised Navarro as a “tenacious” advocate of “my two sacred rules, buy American, hire American.”
Navarro has been a staunch defender of Trump’s protectionist views, echoing his sentiments support for tariffs and wariness of trade deals supported by so-called globalists.
Navarro’s support spread after Trump lost 2020 election to President Joe Biden debunked claims Widespread voter fraud led to the election being stolen from Trump.
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